What Makes One Idea Better Than Another?
The more HTV an explanation is, the more closely it corresponds to reality.
#5246·Benjamin DaviesOP, 11 days agoWhen we reject explanation B in favour of explanation A, there must be some property of the explanations that comprehensively distinguishes A as better than B.
That property is hard-to-vary-ness.
#5247·Benjamin DaviesOP, 11 days agoOne fatal flaw in B is enough to reject B. A does not also need to possess some opposite property that makes it the winner.
A surviving the criticism does not show that A is progress over B. We could reject one error while moving even further from reality.
#5246·Benjamin DaviesOP, 11 days agoWhen we reject explanation B in favour of explanation A, there must be some property of the explanations that comprehensively distinguishes A as better than B.
One fatal flaw in B is enough to reject B. A does not also need to possess some opposite property that makes it the winner.
When we reject explanation B in favour of explanation A, there must be some property of the explanations that comprehensively distinguishes A as better than B.